The Washington Post - August 27 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Washington Post - August 27 2017  

Clues	Answers
#1 rodeo competitor?	THELORDOFTHEROPINGS
'Forbidden' perfume	TABU
'Good one, matador!'	OLE
'Lou Grant' production co	MTM
'Make it quick!'	ASAP
'No __!': 'Easy-peasy!'	PROB
'The rules __ the rules'	ARE
'__ dreaming?'	AMI
1995 Cecil B. DeMille Award-winning actress	LOREN
74-Across season	ETE
Absorb, as with toweling	BLOTUP
Accomplishments	DEEDS
Acorn, essentially	SEED
Act with passion	EMOTE
Appears suddenly	SPRINGSUP
Article in rap titles	THA
Astaire/Rogers 1935 boast?	IMADETOPHAT
Auction unit	LOT
Ballerinas' supply	ROSIN
Band performance	GIG
Bermuda's ocean: Abbr	ATL
Bond adventure with Honey Ryder	DRNO
Boxer's brand?	ALPO
Brief outline	APERCU
Caber toss garb	KILTS
Capital SW of Brussels	PARIS
Carrier renamed in 1997	USAIR
Church greeter's target	NEWFACE
Clock readout abbr	LCD
Collector's item	CURIO
Common conifer	PINE
Compassion	HEART
Compassionate, creative, submissive sort, it's said	PISCES
Courtesy to parents of a child flying alone	GATEPASS
Craving	ITCH
Crisscross pattern	GRID
Crux	CORE
Current	TIDE
Dangerous African biter	MAMBA
Dangerous African biter	ASP
Decline	DIP
Den, for one	ROOM
Development areas	UTERI
Draft providers	BEERTAPS
Drop	OMIT
Emulated a street performer	MIMED
Engine regulator	THROTTLE
Estonia neighbor	LATVIA
Fire __	ESCAPE
Flew into __	ARAGE
For two, in music	ADUE
Freetown currency	LEONE
Geometry function	SINE
Get rid of	SCRAP
Golf shoe feature	CLEAT
Gp. that includes Venezuela	OPEC
Grint who plays Ron in Harry Potter films	RUPERT
Guiding principles	TENETS
Half of bowling's worst split	TENPIN
Harley, e.g	HOG
High-tech worker	ROBOT
Home furnishing purchase	DININGSET
Ideal places	EDENS
Industry VIP	TITAN
Investment acronym	IRA
It might be tapped	MAPLETREE
It won't fly on the Sabbath	ELAL
Join	ATTACH
Kosher	LEGIT

 

Clues	Answers
Laryngitis docs	ENTS
Lazy	OTIOSE
Like small star fruit	TART
Like some construction sight markers	CONIC
Like some strays	MANGY
Like soup cans to Andy Warhol?	PERFECTFORTHEPOPART
Makeover	REDO
Many a South Pacific isle	ATOLL
Marilyn's birth name	NORMA
Mexican dirección	ESTE
Mid sixth-century date	DLI
Military unit	TROOP
Montana's __ Falls	OUSEL
More extensive	WIDER
New York natives	ERIES
News story sources	LEAKS
Novelist Bellow	SAUL
Of immediate concern	URGENT
Ones pressed for drinks	GRAPES
Overwhelm with noise	DEAFEN
Pace of a runaway horse?	UNMITIGATEDGALLOP
Part of Q.E.D	ERAT
Paul Anka's '__ Beso'	ESO
Portugal's region	IBERIA
Position	STANCE
Prepare to store, as a blueprint	ROLLUP
Produce chapter and verse?	WRITE
Refuses	WONT
Religion that may involve a moon goddess	WICCA
Require meds, maybe	AIL
Ruckus	DIN
Saltpeter	NITER
Sault __ Marie	STE
Savvy shopper's cry	IGOTADEAL
Scrooge's opposite	WASTREL
Sculptors' degs	BFAS
See 14-Down	ONCE
Shortly, casually	INAFEW
Show appreciation, in a way	CLAP
Silent affirmation	NOD
Since Jan. 1, in P&L reports	YTD
Slim swimmer	EEL
Slope apparel	SKIHATS
Small change	CENTS
Songlike	MELODIC
Sticks figure	RUBE
Successor to Claudius	NERO
Swabby's need	PAIL
Swear	AVOW
Taunt	GIBE
The musical '1776' reworked with arias?	COLONIALOPERA
Their areas are arias	DIVAS
Ticket word	ROW
Tolerate	ABIDE
Traditional meal	SEDER
Traffic stopper, perhaps	SIREN
Two-balled weapon	BOLA
Under-the-hood type	GEARHEAD
Undercut	ERODE
Verizon subsidiary	AOL
Vespa newbies?	MOPEDSTUDENTS
Was in the red	OWED
What manuscripts may be submitted on	SPEC
Whole alternative	SKIM
Why the kennel closed?	NOPETPROFIT
With 113-Down, precipitously	ALLAT
Wonder on stage	STEVIE
[It disappeared!]	PFFT
__ in the Pod: maternity brand	APEA